Development Cycle Archive
Thread: Vehicle Issues...
Sometimes when I get off of my Swoop while it isn't moving it reacts as if I've tried to get off of it while it ismoving and it takes damage. Then often when I repair the same Swoop, store it then LOG, only toget back in later to find out that the Swoop is damaged worse than before, but the money I spent has still gone.
OT slightly...it really sucks that you can only have one speeder in your datapad and even worse than that is the fact that you don't seem to be able to sell of give away the used speeders. 
Play hard & dirty...
1 If i ride a vehicle for an extended period of time normally 4 minutes or so then most of the time it will not store. it either says out of range or just will not store. If this is the case i can go to my datapad and call it again and have 2 out. the first disapears most of the time once i get out of range.
2 some ofthe few times my vehicle has stored it also stored for guildmates on the same planet but not same area at exactly the same time.
3 one time when i got of my vehicle it speed off like 20-30m and then paused i was then able to store after i caught up with it
my husband and i were riding in yavin IV. we went to kor vella to fix our vehicles to 100% condition. however a couple minutes later, after i generated my vehicle, the hit points were down to same level that it had been before i repaired the vehicle. his vehicle was fine.
i repaired the vehicle in moeina later that day, a couple of minutes later, boom, the hit points go down to a point were the speeder bike is on fire.
repairing is a money sink which i don't have any problem with. but this bug seems to revert the vehicle back to what is was before the repairs in a couple of mintues.
It appears to me that:
vehicles autostoring seem to be happening around the same areas when it happens.. but there is a timeframe inbetween when the autostoring will happen. The timeframe to me seems to beabout30 minutes(this is a guess).
It seems to happen more regularly on some planets than others. I was having a lot of difficulties earlier today on naboo. Maybe because it has more servers controlling the planet? But i was still having the same autostore problem on all the other planets i went too as well. It was just worse on naboo, or maybe it was because of the area I was in, I was trying to do the gungan missions that are to the west of moenia(btw the missions are broke and it doesn't say any text after the first mission)
It seems like after a certain timeframe like 30 mins or so.. whenever you cross a server or something then your vehicle will get autostored. Its difficult for me to tell exactly where aserver boundary is anymore.
More guesses:
Maybe vehicles arn't being transfered across servers after they exist for a certain time peroid?
**Maybe vehicle maintence has something to do with it, like maybe a maintence tick hits at the same time you cross a server boundary and the server doesn't know what to do so it just deletes the vehicle or doesnt recreate it on the other server?** actually this sounds like it might be really plausable
I forgot to mention that the 30 minute timeframe i seem to experience starts from the time I pull it out.. So if i pull it out.. it works fine right away and i can't recreate the problem.. and it won't happen again until some time later. It doesn'thappen exactly every 30 minutes.. it is variable, sometimes it happens sooner, sometimes not for much much later but what im getting at is time goes by before it will happen again. but it seems like when i was on naboo it was happening around that time and was happening a lot more than when i was on the remote planets.
thats prolly why you can't recreate the problem.. and also makes me really think that it may have something to do with the maintence tick since those start happening only after you've had your vehicle out for awhile.
Oh another idea:
Maybe the maintence ticks arn't carrying over from one server to the next properly.. like maybe if a maintence tick happens on server A.. and you go to server B, and another maintence tick happens but the server gets confused somehow, so it just deletes the object.
It really appears to me that it is deleting the vehicle rather than autostoring it.. If it was autostoring it, then your vehicle info would be saved. But we know that if you fix your vehicle, then instantly hop on and drive off, then after awhile your vehicle disappears from under you... when you next call it, it will be reverted to being unfixed again. So its like it doesn't save it when it disappears.
FREE REPAIRS.
1) Generate vehicle outside shuttle port.
2) Get a shuttle to another shuttle port (doesn't seem to matter on distance but the further away is probably better) leaving vehicle behind.
3) On arrival store vehicle and regenerate it.
Whatever damage your vehicle had on it will be gone and you will have a fully repaired vehicle for free.
VEHICLE WARPING OR DRIVING OFF ON IT'S OWN ACCORD
1) Go to a NPC city and drive through an archway by a few meters.
2) Try to store the vehicle wilst in it and it will say that you cannot see that item.
3) Get off of vehicle and it will drive by itself to the entrance to the archway.
4) If you do the above but dirve a long way away (within the city) it will warp back to the archway entrance when you get off of it.
Both of these issues were listed in JustG's thread but I have just this second tested them again and they still exist.
Quite a few times, instead of having an option of "Exit Vehicle" even though you are already mounted. And vice-versa (i.e., you are OFF of your vehicle and bring up the radial on the vehicle and it will say "Exit Vehicle"). Vehicle is a speeder-bike BTW.
This has been happening to me since day one of the Vehicles , I travel mostly to Bestine, Theed we have 3 accounts at my house I have two sons who also play , and it does not matter what machine we are on , In an average of 1 hour I will lose my Vehicle at least 4 times I will be riding away and zoom its gone . I have tried to repair the Vehicles thinking that might be the problem , I have destoryed that Vehicle and made my self a new same problem for all of us
A problem I haven't seen reported is with the repair function in the garages. I own a swoop speeder bike. I went to the garage in Theed on Naboo ( I play on the Kettemoor server) and repaired my bike. At the time it had about 75% vitality left(It took me about 3 hours of driving to get thevitality to go down that far). After driving for about 5 - 10 minutes when I left the garage, all of a suddentheswoop bike went from full vitality backdown to 75% vitality. That really upset me since I spent 2000 credits to repair it. This really needs to be fixed or my bike is gonna end up breaking even though I'be spent money to repair it many times.
This is very frustrating. Is this a bug or by design?